So, this Twitter thing all the young people are doing

[johnridley]

I'm on Twitter as "traalfaz". I mainly set up to throw some sand in the gears over in Tehran - Minnehaha suggests that the Iranian Security Forces (ptew!) are searching for Twits with their location set to Tehran and their time zone to GMT +3.5. So I set up an account for that. But as long as it's set up, I might as well at least pay attention to it and kick the tires a bit.

Guess I'll look to see who else is on this thing. I've updated my gt.org decadelist entry to show my AIM and Twitter usernames.

Hmm, folks don't seem to have put their twitter names (or anything else) in their decadebook entries. If you're on twitter, let me know (here or email).

Comments

[alicebentley]

My take on it is that it is indeed just a post-it note collection, and that they have had problems with both scaling and usability since the inception. i mean, we hardly ever see the Fail Whale any more, and that used to be a daily occurrence.

My impression is that it was launched as a sort of "this could be fun' project, that then got far more attention and use than expected, and has lurched along the road of notability ever since. I have no idea how they are paying for any of this, since there aren't any ads, there's no donation button, and their FAQ to How do you make money on this? just says We don't, yet.